Wednesday, January 26, 2011

AUTUMN

AUTUMN


October's bellowing anger breaks and cleaves


The bronzed battalions of the stricken wood


In whose lament I hear a voice that grieves


For battle's fruitless harvest, and the feud


Of outraged men. Their lives are like the leaves


Scattered in flocks of ruin, tossed and blown


Along the westering furnace flaring red.


O martyred youth and manhood overthrown,


The burden of your wrongs is on my head.


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